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Unidentified soldier rank obscured, vignette bust portrait

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.1024 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 carte de visite 9.7 x 6.1 cm Order a Copy

Graphite inscription on verso "**Book." Photographers imprint on verso: "Wenderoth & Taylor, Late Broadbent & Co., 912, 914 & 916 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. N. B. Negatives will not be preserved langer than one year from the date of sitting, unless they are purchased; in which case a deduction will be made in the cost of pictures printed from them."

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